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July 5, 2025

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Ray Holley

Wine Words

It is raining, hard, as I write this column. There are no birds on the river’s edge and the oak leaves are blowing with abandon from the nearby trees. Squirrels, who earlier I watched gather acorns in preparation for the storm have retreated into their nests. All seems cozy and well with the world.

Class Act: Welcome to 2019

It is my pleasure to be able to share with you some of the highlights that have been happening at Brooks Elementary so far this year. First and foremost, our wonderful teachers are busy with making daily preparations and plans to address the learning needs of all students, regardless of where they come from, their economic status, race or religion deserves to grow and develop their talents. At Brooks, we embrace diversity and have high expectations for all. 

Farmers’ market musings

Last summer, an irate visitor to our market planted himself

Someday we’ll laugh about this . . . right? Me, myself and I… and a few other relatives, too

I love genealogy and family stories. There’s something amazing to me about how traits and characteristics get carried down, generation after generation, and in ties we have to the past. I look like my mother, think like my father and am built like my paternal grandmother.

Refuse, Reduce, Reuse, Repair, Recycle and Rot

America is a disposable nation. Each person, on average, produces more than 1,600 pounds of trash each year.

Spring Is Busting Out All Over

Bud break is a harbinger of spring’s warming. It’s been rainy and cold the last couple of months. Now that the sun is rising earlier and days are getting longer, Mother Nature is responding. Bud break occurs when warmth and sun encourage nutrients to...

Nothing beats a good holiday pudding

This time of year persimmons begin to color and ripen on the tree.

Off the Top of My Head: Advertising for Office

With the start of the 2020 elections already underway I feel this need to address political advertising.

Flashbacks March 30

100 years ago–March 29, 1923 Current From Geysers to Be First of Its Kind in U.S. Within 30 days, electricity generated by steam from the bowels of the earth will be in practical use for the first time in the United States, officials of The Geysers...
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